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Shy logo #10101) Acting tongue-tied 2) Averse to conversing 3) Averse to first moves 4) Bashful 5) Bashful, but not Dopey 6) Blushing 7) Chuck is bashful 8) Chuck is not the brash type 9) Coming up short 10) Daphnean 11) Deficient 12) Demure 13) Diffident 14) Difident 15) Easily frightened 16) Easily scared 17) El Orinoco
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Shy logo #10101) Awkward 2) Balk 3) Bashful 4) Chary 5) Coy 6) Demure 7) Hesitant 8) Inconspicuous 9) Insufficient 10) Modest 11) Nervous 12) Reserved 13) Reticent 14) Short 15) Shrink 16) Start 17) Timid 18) Uncertain 19) Unconfident 20) Wanting 21) Wary
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Shy logo #21002• (a.) Inadequately supplied; short; lacking; as, the team is shy two players. • (n.) A side throw; a throw; a fling. • (a.) To start suddenly aside through fright or suspicion; -- said especially of horses. • (superl.) Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach. • (v. t.) To throw sidewise with a jerk; to fling; as, t...
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shy logo #209731. Easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird. 'The horses of the army . . . Were no longer shy, but would come up to my very feet without starting.' (Swift) ... 2. Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach. 'What makes you so shy, my good friend? There's nobody loves you better than I.' (Arbuthnot) 'The embarrassed look of shy distress And mai...
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Shy logo #20972Shy (shī) adjective [ Compar. Shier (-ẽr) or Shyer ; superl. Shiest or Shyest .] [ Middle English schey , skey , sceouh , Anglo-Saxon sceóh ; akin to Danish sky , Swedish ...
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Shy logo #20972Shy adjective Inadequately supplied; short; lacking; as, the team is shy two players. [ Slang]
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Shy logo #20972Shy intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Shied ; present participle & verbal noun Shying .] [ From Shy , adjective ] To start suddenly aside through fright or suspicion; -- said especially of hors...
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Shy logo #20972Shy noun 1. A sudden start aside, as by a horse. 2. A side throw; a throw; a fling. Thackeray. « If Lord Brougham gets a stone in his hand, he must, it seems, have a shy at somebody.» Punch.
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Shy logo #20972Shy transitive verb To throw sidewise with a jerk; to fling; as, to shy a stone; to shy a slipper. T. Hughes.
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Shy logo #21219Type: Term Pronunciation: shī Definitions: 1. George Milton, U.S. neurologist, 1919-1967. See: Shy-Drager syndrome
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Shy logo #21219Type: Abbreviation Definitions: 1. Abbreviation for 6-mercaptopurine.
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Shy logo #21217Shy is slang for lacking, such as the team is shy two players.
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shy logo #20400[adj] - easily startled or frightened 2. [adj] - wary and distrustful 3. [n] - a quick throw 4. [v] - start suddenly, as from fight 5. [v] - throw quickly
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shy logo #20974 adjective wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things; `shy of strangers`
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